Schism
Dictionary of Terms and Phrases Used in American or English Jurisprudence · Benjamin Vaughan Abbott · 1879
Dictionary of Terms and Phrases Used in American or English Jurisprudence
A clause of a statute that, lent to saying that in case a society shall separate, divide, or become partitioned, without any reference to its external relations. Mc Kinney o.
Griggs, 5 Bmh, 401, 415.